HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our decision to create and share our Change Starts Here initiative is an example of this as is the creation of RiseHY, a commitment by Hyatt and Hyatt hotels to hire 10,000 Opportunity Youth (youth ages 16-24 not in school and not employed). What skills do the global HR managers of the future need to acquire?

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Diversity Human Resources Globalization Commitment 69

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2017

For the purpose of this post, we’re going to focus on the management of hotels. Use technology to your advantage. Firstly, all hotel managers can make their lives easier by using the latest technology. Developers from Mingus Software say it’s the best way to keep on top of essential duties.

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Hotels Reputation Software Advice 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Authority on new technology and communication. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. Innovation Capital.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 82

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Company C : “Our talent acquisition, development and administration platform offers recruiting, onboarding, performance management, along with social network connectivity and data analytics.” We also seek hedonistic values because they evoke sensory pleasure, which is why we enjoy good hotels and fun nightclubs.

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Simon Content Audience Long-term 100

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2020

You should make sure that whatever solution you have has the ability to grow and adapt to changes in the future of your development. You could arrange for laundry and towel deliveries, for example, if you have a hotel or other similar business. For example, an issue could be something like cloud-based storage and systems.

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Tips Learning Curve Long-term ROI 67

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute. When I walked out of the hotel the first plane had just hit and smoke was coming from the tower. What followed the remainder of the day on 9/11 was a combination of heroic and eerie.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

Whether you run a solo business out of your home, are the night receptionist at a hotel, or are president of the company, innovation is your competitive advantage. In the age of digital disruption, technology, and dizzying speed of change, the key to success is simply to be more human.” Tamara Ghandour.

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Innovation How To Competitive Advantage Diversity 101

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. Our research suggests that many procurement professionals do not consider vendors’ cybersecurity capabilities to be an important factor in selecting or developing top-tier suppliers.

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Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Quick, name a product that was developed without using software. It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. It’s difficult, if not impossible.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. Over the years, I have developed just such a template. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Operations Hotels Finance Process 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. Or there’s Nairobi’s SuzieBeauty, which develops cosmetics catering to African tastes at quality matching Western levels. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Just as it’s hard to remember what life was like before the iPhone, it can be hard to remember business before there was CRM software — back when you still had to explain that it stood for “customer relationship management.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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CRM Management Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

This latest frequent flyer reboot is an example of how the meaning, measure, and management of “customer loyalty” are changing. Walmart is loyal to its customers by providing a tool and technology that allows it to honors its “everyday low prices” promise to shoppers. A profitable repeat customer?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. An Accenture survey of 1,088 U.S.

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Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

The hotel consists of two restored Renaissance palaces, separated by 11 acres of garden. Every time I entered the hotel, I had to walk the length of the garden to my room. As I meandered along the winding paths, my mind began to wander too, making connections, drawing insights, and developing ideas. I was thrilled.

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Chief Technology Officer Hotels Learning-by-Doing Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. Even when these firms rely on physical assets, like cars for Uber, they own the technology, not the physical asset. Digital native upstarts are gutting traditional industries one at a time, leveraging scalable technology and participative networks.

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Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It We have found that when this process works well, marketing often takes on an expanded role by, for example, providing sales with data analytics and by supporting the development and testing of sales plays for a specific micromarket or customer peer group.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Today Dubai also boasts the world’s tallest building, artificial islands, the first hotel with a rain forest, and the largest indoor theme park on earth. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Since cloud-based systems are modular and scalable, they are fundamentally easier to manage. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China. And on and on.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

It’s also because of the power that face-to-face meetings can have in our own development and the crafting of invaluable relationships. Technology can, of course, help to cement social ties, but only following an original personal experience. We have the technology, but we need the guidance and inspiration.”

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Travel Drucker Hotels Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

All too often the functionality, user experience, logic, and workflow decisions of exactly how the application will work are made by the software vendor or app developer with no input from users. Aggregators like Expedia and some airlines will argue that they do allow you to book both flight and hotel from the same portal.

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Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Indeed, through any one airline, customers can have access to thousands of organizations across a spectrum of businesses such as hotels, rental cars, vacation resorts, cruises, and restaurants. The management of shared assets and activities (mostly through human interactions) can be complex. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Airlines Hotels Operations Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

For proof , look no further than Airbnb which, at $10 billion, can boast a higher valuation than the Hyatt hotel chain. Since many of these businesses come out of Silicon Valley it is easy to think the largest risk is the underlying technology or competition. Government Technology' Uber is currently valued at $18.2

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? But times change.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Within weeks there was $50 billion in business deals involving foreign companies, including the Airbus agreement (worth $25 billion) to sell 118 planes, and Italy’s state rail company’s $5 billion pact to develop the local rail network. However, remaining U.S. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. Start by conducting a UX audit that captures the sequence of interactions your customers need to take to complete basic tasks with key products, be it renting a car or checking into a hotel room.

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10